• oneser@lemmy.zip
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    5 days ago

    Man, Spotify were the ones who did it. Like they made the service so significantly better and more convenient than pirating that most of those pirating actually switched.

    Not a fan of the platform anymore since the heavy push for sponsored content, removal of audiobooks and the whole Joe Rogan thing, but still credit where it’s due.

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      5 days ago

      The built a thing by burning investor money to artificially lower the price and sell out high on stock IPOs is still going strong I see.

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        4 days ago

        And by massively underpaying the actual artists that create the content that fills the platform.